GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- A former Holland man who was accused of being New York's "Dapper Groper" -- a person wanted for several cases of groping women in Manhattan earlier this year -- has been cleared of all charges, several media outlets are reporting.

Karl Vanderwoude, 26, who works for a finance-related company in New York, was contacted by police April12 after he was identified as the possible "groper" in an anonymous tip to police.

He then was put in five or six lineups with other men, and victims of the assaults picked him in two lineups, according to the New York Daily News.

VanderWoude ultimately was charged with forcible touching, third-degree sexual abuse and unlawful surveillance in alleged attacks that happened on Feb. 27 and March 30.

He always denied the allegations.

VanderWoude and his attorneys produced evidence and surveillance tapes and items from his employer to show he was at work when one of the groping incidents happened, and with a co-worker at a restaurant when the other happened.

The District Attorney's office agreed with VanderWoude and officially dismissed the charges Monday.

VanderWoude told the Daily News that he bears no ill-will toward police, but was glad the ordeal was over.

“They were acting on the information that they had,” he said. “They were just doing their jobs.”